Luckily I kept a full backup (catalogue files and originals) of my LR catalogue from when I left last time. Recently, after following the progress of Lightroom CC (cloud) and getting back into my photography, I thought it time to give Lightroom another try. Anyway, all went well and I successfully transitioned on Photos and had a nice cloud-based photo library. At this time, I also a bunch of images that were sitting on my phone and some other random ones from older hard drives, etc. I went through a fairly pain-staking process of exporting all my Lightroom photos and collections and recreating this in Photos (including collections, picks/loves, etc, etc). At some point I decided to move away from Lightroom as I wasn't using it that much and giving the new Apple Photos a crack. It’s a middle-finger salute to their customers dressed up as ‘safety’ or ‘convenience’ or some other marketing BS.A few years ago I was using Lightroom (classic desktop) to manage all my photos.
Should you then move it to your LR catalog? I don’t bother in most cases.Ī lot of this unnecessary to-ing and fro-ing, fragmentation and duplication is due to the lousy Apple (and Adobe) ring moat around their individual systems.
But, if you save the result (a JPG) back to Photos it should show up on your Mac. If you shoot RAW on iOS, you could use either LR or Raw Power or even Affinity Photo for iPad (very capable but a lot of fiddling) to process on your iOS device.
There’s also a Photos extension on the Mac App store that will allow you to send any image from Photos to practically any app (but not LR I seem to recall). DXO-for-Photos looks like abandonware but it’s still on the App Store and still a very good one-click contrast enhancer that you can later tweek in the Photos app. The best place to process is in Photos on the Mac (synced automatically from iOS) where the processing is pretty good (although the ‘non-destructive’ tag is at best misleading).Īlso several decent apps on the Mac integrate with Photos e.g. Halide) there’s not a lot to be gained by processing in LR on the phone or iPad.
If you shoot JPG or HEIC on your phone (the native Apple camera software retains some evident benefits over LR or e.g.
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